YU HUA

Residence Period: 28.09-03.11.2016

Project: ICA Writers' Residence Prague & October Writers' Residence • Prague

born April 3, 1960 Hangzhou, Zhejiang province

practiced as dentistry for five year

turned to fiction writing in 1983 because he didn't like "looking into people's mouths the whole day" writing allowed him to be more creative and flexible

Awards

Grinzane Cavour Prize 1998 for "To Live"

James Joyce Award 2002，He was the first Chinese writer to receive this award

Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France 2004

Barnes & Noble Discovery Great New Writers Award 2004

Special Book Award of China 2005

Prix Courrier International 2008

Works

Short story collections

Leaving Home at Eighteen

Classical Love

Blood and Plum Blossoms

China in Ten Words

Boy in the twilight

Novels

To Live

Chronicle of a Blood Merchant

Cries in the Drizzle

Brothers

Seventh Day